Riskcovery

CVE-2022-0992

SiteGround Security <= 1.2.5 - Authentication Bypass via 2FA Setup

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Apr 19, 2022
Updated
Apr 8, 2026
Reserved
Mar 16, 2022

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Description

The SiteGround Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass that allows unauthenticated users to log in as administrative users due to missing identity verification on initial 2FA set-up that allows unauthenticated and unauthorized users to configure 2FA for pending accounts. Upon successful configuration, the attacker is logged in as that user without access to a username/password pair which is the expected first form of authentication. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWordfence

Weaknesses

  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Pluginsiteground
  • 1.2.5 and earlierAffected

References

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